John T

It for the Orthodox Jews for an event coming up. They own all the places that these Stencils would be put down.. I'm $30 over the lowest bid per stencil so there's a good chance we'll not get this.. Pretty much a headache anyways.

Here's my deck--Like the "Bleach Bandit" says, this shoemakers kids have no shoes.. I should torch my deck.. errr Scratch that:)

Oh yea.. Wait to you see my disaster on my own deck with my 2 chocolates who ate half of this deck.. Also the scary thing is my deck is almost the opposite at what Beth is showing.. I just took a picture of a section of it now.. The rest Is Much worse.

That deck looks like it can be stripped and replace all the spindles and then restored.. But those jobs we no longer do.. Can't be married to a nightmare like that when my guys just cost to much to deal with.... A nightmare.

We get phone calls all the time that go like this-- "we would like an estimate on Powerwashing our Cedar sided house".. Sometimes I think they say like that on the Business phone because my Company name ends in Powerwashing as in Clean County Powerwashing. Us wood guys all know your not really "Power" Washing the siding. Your either stripping the wood or cleaning the wood but your not "Powerwashing"the wood. Soft washing to me sounds like a week name to say your doing when it comes to wood restoration. Is there a better name for Wood restoration that can be a more common term to bring out to the masses? I know I'm over thinking this but it's not like I don't over think things anyway. What's a better term to tell someone who wants there Cedar sided house Powerwashed?

Yea Rick Stop blowing up the forums:) Ain't no shoes on this shoemakers kids. If I showed the disaster we did to my deck a few yrs ago by two toning it with solid white rails and brick color surface you would puke. My dogs gouged the wood to death(like my dogs ate the the homework story-- gotta blame something)

The BDA chairmen should not be allowed to view other peoples work...hehehehehe

No comment as of yet. Last year we used Cabots, Benjamin Moore,Sikkens and Wolmans and none of them was that great. Like Matt Johnson's says -- every year I want to get away from staining anything but every year we get to many jobs that it's to hard to walk a way from.. And when a house or deck comes out nice there is nothing better to look at in any type of work we do..

When did you guys stain your deck last and how long do you suggest when someone goes with the AC Amber to have it restained again?

That Amber looks sweet. Where going to use that color this week for the first time.

We do for commercial work and mostly at night. Only on a rare occasion now we'll we do residential work on Sundays. I was brought up as Sunday is a day of rest but I don't rest except at night when I try to sleep. One of the things I like doing on Sunday is fix any broken machines we had during the week(have to fix a pump today) and if there was nothing wrong I tinker in my shop. This is what I like best. I don't know maybe I'll start building the wall behind surface machine I have thought out.... Oh yea I check to make sure all chemicals are stocked in the trucks and trailers so they guy are never low on supplies. So how about you.. Do you work occasionally on Sundays, tinker with equipment or really do make it a day of rest? What's your Sunday like?

VOC(Volatile Organic Compounds) are crippling stains and you woodies are the ones who need to keep producing excellent results for your customers. Is this another green ploy to cause us wood restoration guys to be hit with environmental issues that may be over stated? Years ago this Painter told me the best paints ever made were lead paints. They would last for years. Of course kids found this type of dried paint to be yummy and unfortunately extremely poisoness if not deadly. What about stains and the VOC's? There here and there real.. But are the stains themselves the last few yrs also getting over regulated? Where does this end? What's your thoughts and what have you done to find stains ahead of the curve?

I do. Yesterday I got a nice job from a neighboring contractor. A few of us pass jobs onto each other when we don't want them. Last yr I got almost a $20,000 job from a local contractor that has panned out to a another 10 grand more and also another 4 grand so far this year. So do you network with your local contractors? If so tell us how it's going.

Your the king of this Matt. I talk to Contractors in your area who said they worked with you. Bob S. comes to mind. You also worked in my area with fellow contractors..... Hmmm there's a speaking session to possibly have for the future... NETWORK NETWORK.... NETWORK some more.. Bow down to King Matt:)

My biggest night to get off if I can is Saturday night. That's when I'll take my wife and maybe my girls out for family night and we can all get up late Sunday.. At least they can:)

You lucky Dawg:) we do Garages on Sundays as well. How cold is it by you now at night? Where still hitting the freeze #'s causing for this week alone, 2 cracked metal balls valves and one general TSF 2021 pump to possibly have ice damage on the inside. Opening that one up later today as I tinker.

Man I wish that was true when I was in law Enforcement in my early career in some nasty places. Give all the cops a few days off and watch how fast NY City back then would have turned into Kurt Russel's movie "Escape from NY". This was during the crack epidemic in the mid to late 80's-- total helll hole.

That's because your a true wood restoration artist where I'm a Sifi Channel combo wood,vinyl, parking garage,Bldg monster that sprays to clean.. Stains?? Our goal is to remove stains.. But we also apply them as well.. Go figure.

Of course you got grey hair. As a founder of BDA don't all the leaders there look like they have George Washington wig color hair due to SH??

Very similar thinking. We get paid well to get rid of anything that's real grey in color.. Then to re-stain it a weathered type grey?? In the past we stained houses light semitransparent green(totally gross), snottish yellow(even grosser) amongst some disgusting colors. Earth tone colors that are along the mahogany,cedar families to me are beautiful but at heart I was never a fan of staining or painting anything... I just want to clean clean and clean some more.. Crazy right?? Yup this is where I will openly admit I am crazy at.. I love CLEAN:)

When this stain completely dried it evened out to look like that weathered beachy look which I don't have a picture of because we never go back of course unless there's problems. I'm look for another picture of a house we did that we actually were staining it Grey where the same thing the wife wanted that color. This one was a problem because the second day there the husbands family was there and what a problem this was. They hated the Grey and the only one who liked it was the wife again. On this other house she was over ruled and we ended up striping out the new stain and restained it natural Cedar.. The reason Why I'm posting this pics now is because we are stripping two houses this week and one of them the homeowner is leading toward staining it grey and on this one were going to strip it but if he goes grey a painter will do it thats affiliated with him. If he goes natural in color where going to do it. Should be interesting.

How does blogging work if you do your own blogs away from any Bulletin board? Can they really become popular? What about a Blog coming back to your business if you don't want it to. For example if you want to blog let's say something called "The truths in the Powerwashing Industry leaders hoax" could that stand on it's own? Would it be better served to have a bulletin board made up maybe even titled "The Political Truths in Powerwashing & the Hoax that some do? What's better a Blog or a separate bb that let's people address everything? How should this be done so I can continue on what some others have caused to start? It's time to bring out the truths and many people want to add there own as well about certain things. Barry for one, what do you suggest?

Hey Beth -- why can't this also fall into the "Club house" forum as well?

I use to check wood with my wood dampness meter. The magic # was around 15% or less dampness before you should stain. Here where I live it's pretty damp. I did run into drying problems over the years because of the dampness but the one thing I never wanted to try was these stain products that state you can stain when the wood is WET. Has anyone tried any of these stain type products and did you find the saying that if it "Sounds to good to be true" it really is to good to be true? Thoughts...

I see a lot of post coming up from others that says there double posted. My problems is not only can I not post pics but my post are also coming up as double post so I have to edit out the other post. Beth/Rod run a very honest and professional bulletin board so I know my controls aren't messed with like they were on one other site by a certain Admin that does this to many... Is anyone else having difficulty with there post here of late?